Madison

Right after Afterglow, we drove to Madison to stay with Cam while he was attending a conference there. It worked out great...we had a big hotel room with plenty of space for all of us, we were able to make picnic lunches with our continental breakfast, the girls and I headed out on adventures every day and then we would meet up with Cam for dinner. I actually felt like we were back at our condo in the city, going on our all morning walking adventures. It was refreshing and we had a lot of fun!

Gwen loved the capital building. I think we ended up there every day.

On one of our walks, we ended up at a huge convention center (I forget the actual name of it) which had this rooftop terrace/garden overlooking Lake Mendota.

Looking out from the observation deck at the Capital building.

Cam had the afternoon free one day so we headed to the zoo. Look how close we got to the tiger! Gwen loved it but it actually terrified Sonja, she did not want to be anywhere near that tiger. As I was holding her at first when she started getting scared, I realized, oh yeah, she's a toddler and has no idea that there is glass separating her from that huge animal! In a way it was nice to see her have a little fear for once, maybe we won't have to worry about her being too fearless her whole life :)